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documentary<br />
Travel | <strong>Docu</strong>-<strong>soap</strong><br />
<strong>SECOND</strong> <strong>HAND</strong> <strong>TO</strong> <strong>AFRICA</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> Plymouth to Banjul Challenge<br />
wanted to show that this can be done by everybody, not<br />
“I just the big boys of the Dakar Rallye who have the backup<br />
support of their own teams and a million dollar budget”, says<br />
Julian Nowill, originator of the Plymouth Banjul Challenge, in the<br />
<strong>Docu</strong>mentary “Second Hand to Africa”.<br />
<strong>The</strong> rallye cars, worth just about 150 euros, have to last out for<br />
more than 8000 kilometres before they are auctioned off for<br />
charity in <strong>The</strong> Gambia.<br />
Knackered old cars, no organisation, no support, adventures<br />
galore.<br />
Mines, sand storms, technical hitches, breakdowns …<br />
This is not a race: those who reach the finishing line in Banjul<br />
have won.<br />
<strong>Film</strong>maker Sandra Krieger accompanies six participants from<br />
Austria and the UK who thought that getting there would be<br />
easier than it actually is.<br />
AUSTRIA’S <strong>TO</strong>P FILM AND TV PRODUCERS<br />
length<br />
50 minutes<br />
writer & director<br />
christian stolz<br />
sandra krieger<br />
year<br />
2008<br />
producer<br />
niki klingohr<br />
executive producer<br />
rudolf klingohr<br />
format<br />
HD<br />
version<br />
english and german<br />
in production
documentary<br />
Travel | <strong>Docu</strong>-<strong>soap</strong><br />
<strong>SECOND</strong> <strong>HAND</strong> <strong>TO</strong> <strong>AFRICA</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> Plymouth to Banjul Challenge<br />
In late December, filmmaker Sandra Krieger climbs into a four-wheel pickup, to accompany<br />
Franz Xaver and Philip Schmid to Banjul, capital of <strong>The</strong> Gambia, 8000 km away from Vienna.<br />
Xaver and Philip, one a not-about-to-arrive artist, the other a computer student, are participants<br />
of the Plymouth-Banjul Challenge. <strong>The</strong>ir vehicle: a 20-plus year old Opel Kadett.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re’s only one thing they can be sure about at their start in Vienna: they have to expect the<br />
unexpected over the next three weeks.<br />
Driving through Austria, Italy, France and Spain, they already encounter problems that those<br />
two chaotic brothers have never dreamed about.<br />
In Tarifa at the south-western tip of Spain, teams from all over Europe meet to celebrate New<br />
Year’s Eve.<br />
A day’s break, used to form into travelling groups. Xaver and Philip meet<br />
Matthew (a 23 year old farmer from the UK) and Claire (a 32 year old shop owner, also from<br />
the UK), in their old Mercedes. And Kristian (a 34 year old nursery man from the UK),<br />
Tom (a 24 year old car salesman from the UK) and their Trabant.<br />
On their journey through Africa, bonding occurs between our guys. Friendships grow, born<br />
out of necessity: the organiser does provides no support, no servicing cars, no ambulance –<br />
there are only the other participants to lend a helping hand when the going gets rough.<br />
<strong>The</strong> route passes through colourful, oriental Morocco, the mined territories of Western<br />
Sahara, the Mauritanian desert and Senegal.<br />
Participants push on, bent on getting their cars to the charity auction in Banjul.<br />
Tantrums, camp fires, a succession of breathtaking scenery, bent policemen, sand storms and<br />
engine troubles combine into an exhilarating fairy tale.<br />
One of the last adventures, open to more than 300 participants from all of Europe.<br />
For further information please contact<br />
HEINRICH MAYER<br />
<strong>Interspot</strong> <strong>Film</strong>-Ges.m.b.H<br />
A-1230 Vienna<br />
phone: + 43 1 | 80 120-420<br />
e-mail: mayer@interspot.at<br />
view trailer at: www.interspot.at<br />
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